A former notable mining pool, CEX.io currently operating as a bitcoin exchange announced a partnership with AstroPay that aims to provide local currency account deposits and withdrawals in LATAM region.

Beepi, the first peer-to-peer car marketplace to accept bitcoin as a payment option offers a revolutionary way of buying and selling used cars. Having been in business for about a year, the company has received many favourable reviews.

Standard Chartered, a London-based multinational banking and financial services company has shown interest in the blockchain. A distributed ledger technology has the potential to become a model for a low-cost and transparent transaction infrastructure, suggests Anju Patwardhan, a Chief Innovation Officer at Standard Chartered.

RLabs, a non-profit organization providing solutions to address the social and economic challenges in South Africa launched a bitcoin crowdfunding platform for Early Childhood Development (ECD) projects.